A book review presentation of the book named "Africa in World Politics" edited by Janice N. Brownfoot and Steven Wright. I was assigned to write e book review and present it as part of my foundation training at BPATC, Savar, Bangladesh. This training is conducted with almost 250+ participants from Bangladesh Civil Service. Participants are from different cadres of Bangladesh Civil Service. Currently duration of this training is six months. But in future it may be extends to ten months. There are almost 23+ modules in this training. One of the module is book review and presentation. Every participants are assigned with a English and a Bangla book. Participants are needed to write and give a presentation on the English book.

1. Africa In World
Politics
Presented By
Easin Sadek
Roll: D430
Module No: 19

2. Publisher: The Macmillan Press Limited
Year of Publication: 1987
Number of Pages: 214
ISBN: 0-333-39630-8
All About The Book

3. Editors
Stephen Wright
Janice Brownfoot
Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at
Northern Arizona University
Freelance researcher and writer

4. Recapitulation
Africa’s Place and Role
in the International System
Factors behind Africa’s
Weakness
in World Politics
Vital Insight on Africa’s
Political and Economic
Situation

5. Introductory Chapter
Africa and International
Economic System
Africa’s International
Organizations
Development and Change
Diplomacy, Security and
Conflict

6. Security Redefined
Nuclear Power
Class Conflict
Guerilla Struggle
Future Struggles

7. Foreign Policy
Operation of OAU as an
Instrument of Africa’s
Foreign Policy
African Policy in Practice

8. Commonwealth and Africa
South Africa and Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
Different Commonwealth
issues in Africa
Future of the
Commonwealth in Africa

9. Women and Politics in Africa
In Pre-colonial Africa
In Colonial Africa
Nationalist Movements
Barriers to Women
in Politics
New Direction of
Women Politics

10. Social Change and Political Instability
Impact of early Colonial
Activity
Colonialism and African
Traditions
Search for an African
Philosophy

11. Zimbabwe: Towards Socialism and
Non-Alignment
Transition to independence
Implementation of Socialism
Non-alignment

12. Post-Colonial Africa
The Post-Colonial State
Inter-African Relations
The International Systems

13. Chad: National Building
Chad Crisis
Internal Politics
Regional Involvement
OAU Peacekeeping Efforts

14. Western Sahara War
This video was collected from a youtube
channel named Nusshatta Foundation
published in 2018

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Western
Sahara
War

16. Israel-Africa
Relations in 1980s

17. Developments
in National and
Regional
Security
The New Constitution
Regional Developments

18. Critical Assessment

19. Positive Sides
Diversity
Source of diversified knowledge of numerous author
Perfect Compilation
Perfect compilation of different articles
Appropriate Quotations
Use of appropriate quotations on the right place

20. Positive Sides (Contd.)
Sources of Further Reading
Suggested a lot of sources of further reading
Comprehensive Information of Working Papers
Detailed information of the authors
and the working papers
Proper Selection of Papers
All of the chapters were pertinent to the topic
and in right order

21. Lacks Pictorial Description
There was no use of pictures, diagrams
etc. in the whole book
Not Entertaining
As all of them are conference paper
Lacks Background Information
Insufficient use of background
history and information
Weak Points

22. Background History
Addition of proper
background history
Relevant Images
Addition of Relevant pictures,
maps, flow charts, short images
Informal Style
Use of Informal style
rather than too
formal approach
Recommendation

23. Big No! But Yes - In addition with
Africa in World Politics:
Constructing Political and
Economic Order – by – John
Harbeson and Donald Rothchild
Things Fall Apart – by Chinua
Achebe
Long Walk to Freedom – by
Nelson Mandela
Verdict

24. Thank You!
Any Query?